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Originally Posted by magnets
I'd consider it pretty awful if our severely discounted, dual core 667MHz, ARM, $430 controller with an FPGA can't keep up with a $5 microcontroller, and had timing issues like these. |
It probably CAN keep the timing requirements. But why add on that requirement and slow down everything else when you can offload the processing to a $5 processor. Add on to that, we can use it to teach MORE students DIFFERENT programming skills.